Egypt is a nation without external military threats to its sovereignty. None of its neighbors can threaten Egypt’s territorial sovereignty, yet the United States is arming Egypt at an alarming rate. The only reason Egypt would need a strong army is just in case it decides to go to war against Israel in the future.
This has been a long-standing issue for many, including open-eyed Israeli lawmakers and not a few US congressmen who just do not see the logic in pouring high-quality American arms into Egypt.
To repeat: Egypt has no need of a massive, US-equipped army except to conduct war against Israel, which is the only neighboring country that poses any kind of military challenge, but which has absolutely no designs on Egyptian territory.
So basically the US oversaw a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, but as part of the deal agreed to arm Egypt for the day that treaty breaks down. Does this make any sense?
Some will argue that as part of that deal, the US also began its massive military aid to Israel. The difference is that Israel does in fact face numerous regional military threats to its sovereignty, and is in great need ...   more »

By Andrei Piontkovsky
Last week, Russia and China held joint military maneuvers in the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤). But a new strategic alliance between the two countries is unlikely, as it is China that poses the greatest strategic threat to Russia, although many in the Kremlin seem blind to this as they rattle sabers at the West.
Indeed, China officially considers several regions in Russia's Far East to be only "alienated" from it. Beijing's territorial claims on Russia are often listed in Chinese grade school geography textbooks, which include a number of Russian Far Eastern regions within China's borders.
This ideology is consistent with the Chinese strategic concept of "vital space," which includes all spheres of a state's strategic activities -- on land, at sea, under water, in the air and in space. The dimensions of "vital space" are determined by a country's economic, scientific, technical, social and military capabilities -- in essence, its "total power."
Chinese theorists have said that the "vital space" of great powers extends far beyond a state's borders, whereas the "vital space" of weak countries is limited to strategic boundaries that do not always correspond to ...   more »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Tuesday that Teheran has achieved full proficiency in the nuclear fuel cycle and warned the West that dialogue and friendship - not threats - were the right way to deal with Iran.
"Today, Iran is a nuclear Iran," Ahmadinejad told a press conference in Teheran. "That means, it fully possesses the whole nuclear fuel cycle."
Ahmadinejad, however, said his country was committed to a "peaceful path" in pursuing its controversial nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad's comments followed an announcement Monday by the International Atomic Energy Agency which said that Teheran was offering some cooperation in the agency's probe of an alleged secret uranium processing project linked by US intelligence to a nuclear arms program.
The IAEA has said that Teheran also outlined its timetable for providing other sensitive information sought by the Vienna, Austria-based UN watchdog in its investigation of over two decades of nuclear activity by the Islamic republic, most of it clandestine until revealed more than four years ago.
The US criticized the deal with the IAEA, saying the agreement won't save Iran from a third set of UN Security Council sanctions for refusing to halt uranium enrichment.
Some in the IAEA have suggested Washington ...   more »

    BEIJING, Aug 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Changes in sexual habits, a burgeoning world population and intensive farming practices are reasons for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
    The United Nations health agency said AIDS and 38 other new pathogens that were unknown a generation ago are afflicting mankind.
    Though advances in science could account for the discovery of existing pathogens that were previously unidentified, WHO epidemics expert Dr. Mike Ryan said changes in human behavior and practices have produced more new diseases.
    "We've seen a shift in trend that reflects a transition of human civilization," Ryan said. "The relationship to the animal kingdom, our travel, our social, sexual and other behaviors have changed the nature of our relationship with the microbial world and the result of that is the emergence of new pathogens and the spread of those pathogens around the world."
    He noted that in the late 19th century, scientists discovered a range of agents causing ancient scourges such as anthrax, staphylococcus, tuberculosis and tetanus.
    In the 1970s and '80s it wasn't pathogens experts were discovering but new syndromes: children getting sick with rashes and fever in the ...   more »

By Dale Hurd
CBNNews.com - Ever since 9/11, Americans have been bombarded with the message that Islam is a religion of peace.
The "Islam is Peace" campaign began in earnest the day after 9/11, when President Bush visited a mosque in Washington, D.C.
"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam," President Bush said. "That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace."
Click play to hear Gordon Robertson and Robert Spencer speak about the apparent differences between Christianity and Islam.
The leading Muslim advocacy group, the Council of American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, has continued to spread the "Islam is peace" message through the media, even though CAIR is now an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorism case.
A CAIR commercial says "Islam is not about violence. It's about peace and justice."
Some have even suggested that Christianity is somehow as dangerous or more dangerous than radical Islam. Rosie O'Donnell said as much on the program The View last year.
Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck said "…And if you take radical Islam and what's going on there…".
O'Donnell interrupted: "Just one second. Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."
But is ...   more »